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Katawba Valley Land Trust
The Katawba Valley Land Trust received two conservation easements that protect an additional 380 acres.
A 187-acre conservation easement was donated by the Stoneboro Plantation LLC in the Stoneboro area of southern Lancaster and northern Kershaw counties.
The donation is the second easement donated to KVLT by the Stoneboro Plantation LLC.
The total protected acreage is 751 acres on the heavily wooded property, which protects the headwaters of Little Beaver Creek.

Lancaster Soil and Water Conservation District
The Lancaster Soil and Water Conservation District board of commissioners presented the Rev. R. A. Morrison with an exceptional service award on Feb. 6.
The award was in recognition for his 16 years of service as a chaplain for the district.
Morrison a pastor, farmer and family man at one time headed a sweet potato farming cooperative, and continues to farm with family members on his farm near Steele Hill AME Zion Church.

Scotts Miracle-Gro
When spring fever hits, it’s easy to feel a little overwhelmed with all the things you want to do in the yard. Here’s a simple list that will help you get your garden ready for good weather.
You can start with this checklist as soon as weather permits.
If you can get these things done in the coming weeks, you’ll be well on your way to enjoying spring when it gets into full swing.

U.S. Department of Agriculture
April 6 is the deadline to apply for the Conservation Reserve Program from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency (FSA) and the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). Late applications will not be accepted.
The Conservation Reserve Program retires erodible row crop land by planting trees, grass or wildlife foods and the program also benefits pastureland in streamside areas.

Many people have become unswervingly convinced that the ongoing controversy surrounding the administration’s health-care mandate has something to do with contraceptives.
Certainly that’s what the mandate itself deals with – and clearly that’s the narrative the president’s political and media allies are aggressively (and, so far, successfully) advancing. But contraception actually has very little to do with the uproar.
First, let’s recap what started this debate in the first place.

A stop at her mailbox ended in the armed robbery of a Lancaster woman early Monday morning.

The 39-year-old victim called 911 at 2:25 a.m. to report she had just been robbed at gunpoint outside her home in the 3400 block of Pageland Highway, according to a Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office incident report.

The woman told deputies at the scene she got home about 2:20 a.m. after a trip to Walmart to buy items for her children’s school lunches.

KERSHAW – The application has been sent. And now Kershaw officials have to wait to find out if they’re selected.

Since last year, the town of Kershaw has been eyeing a $500,000 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG). If awarded, that federal money will pay for the replacement of old water lines in the Springs cotton mill village neighborhood, just north of the town limits.

The town provides water for that area, which includes roads such as First, Second, Third and Fourth streets.